INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
July 10, 1997
Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director
This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items.
These minutes were compiled by the IETF Secretariat which is supported
in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR-9528103
ATTENDEES
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Baker, Fred / cisco
Bradner, Scott / Harvard
Burgan, Jeff / @home
Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison)
Coya, Steve / CNRI
Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison)
Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee
Narten, Thomas / IBM
O'Dell, Mike / UUNET
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Romanow, Allyn / Sun
Schiller, Jeff / MIT
Regrets
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Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett
Curran, John / BBN Planet
Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks
Minutes
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1. The minutes of the June 5 Teleconference were approved. Steve to
place in public archives.
2. The IESG approved publication of FTP Security Extensions as a Proposed
Standard, but required a small change that will be made in the next
version of the document . Once the revised
document is available Steve is to send the Protocol Action announcement.
3. The IESG approved publication of MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word
Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send
announcement.
4. The IESG approved publication of The "data" URL scheme
as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send
announcement.
5. The IESG approved publication of Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS
Servers as a Best Current Practices RFC.
Steve to send announcement.
6. The IESG approved publication of Clarifications to the DNS Specification
as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send
announcement.
7. The IESG approved publication of IMAP URL Scheme
as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send
announcement.
8. The IESG approved publication of Using the Internet DNS to Distribute
MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM)
as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send
announcement.
9. The IESG approved publication of Use of an X.500/LDAP directory to
support MIXER address mapping as a
Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement.
10. The IESG approved formation of the IP Payload Compression Protocol (ippcp)
Working Group.
11. The IESG had no problem with the updated charter for Realtime Traffic Flow
Measurement (rtfm) WG.
12. The IESG approved formation of the Transaction Internet Protocol (tip)
Working Group.
13. The IESG approved formation of the TCP over Satellite (tcpsat) Working
Group.
14. The IESG had no problem with the updated charter for Multiparty Multimedia
Session Control (mmusic) WG.
15. The IESG approved formation of the IP Over IEEE 1394 (ip1394) Working
Group. Jeff Burgan had some minor changes to be made to the WG
Description, and will send them to Steve.
16. The IESG approved publication of Integrated Services over IEEE
802.1D/802.1p Networks as an Informational
RFC. Steve to send announcement.
17. The IESG approved publication of Routing Aspects Of IPv6 Transition
as an Informational RFC. Steve
to send announcement.
18. The IESG approved publication of IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice
as an Informational RFC. Steve to send
announcement.
19. The IESG approved publication of VENUS - Very Extensive Non-Unicast
Service as an Informational RFC. Steve
to send announcement.
20. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Network Security For Trade
Shows as an Informational RFC. Steve to
inform RFC Editors.
21. There was a brief discussion about working group email archives. While
there is an archive at ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archives, it was noted that
this is a service offered (i.e not used by all WGs) it does not eliminate
the need for each WG to maintain their own set of archives.
22. The next IESG telechat will be in 2 weeks (July 24).
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